VBA script causes recursive opening of database

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I have written an event procedure in a form which opens a word document that will attempt to Mail Merge data from a query in the database that is already open. The problem is that the word document opens a second copy of the database rather than using the database that is already open. Could any one advise me how to prevent the Word from opening the second copy of the data base and use the query in the database file that is already open.

thanks